UCSF Requirements and Resources to Work Abroad

Setting up your Global Health Experience

Find a mentor

For research, the student's mentor is a UCSF faculty member who is often an investigator on the project, or is willing to co-mentor for a project outside UCSF.

For clinical rotations, the student may ask a faculty member that they know to be a mentor. Other students find mentor names on the UCSF Student Trip Reports below or ask a global health advisor.

Resources for Researching Your Trip

Resource for Students/Trainees on travel health and safety: start with a comprehensive look at the issues of travel safety. Refer back to this Resource frequently, but note this information is for UCSF trainees in general and some of the forms and procedures may not apply to students in all schools and programs.

School of Medicine Procedures: for arranging GH research or rotations. Read this carefully. (Link coming shortly)

Student trip reports: begin researching your trip by reading about what students have done previously

State Department Website: check for Travel Warnings. Students need special permission to receive credit or funding for work or projects in countries that carry a State Department Warning, with the exception of students who are participating in an active UCSF program where UCSF faculty and staff are located in that country. Please see your global health advisor if you have any questions about this issue.

UC Trip Planner: check any country for a Security Rating, or get information about many issues like weather, important dates, security issues, etc.

Present at a Global Health Conference

The staff of the UCSF School of Medicine Global Health Pathway lists opportunities on the linked pages as a convenience to UCSF students. Students are not only encouraged to, but should do their own research and preparation for each placement opportunity and not rely solely on the information provided on these pages.

UCSF web sites may contain links to non-University sites (“Third-Party Sites”). UCSF is not responsible for and does not control the content of linked Third-Party Sites; therefore, UCSF assumes no liability for any content on such sites. The inclusion of any link does not imply and should not be interpreted as a UCSF endorsement of the site, entity, products or services.